• There's another article in this month's Time Magazine about starbucks' plans for world domination and how important it is on keeping it simple, lest you get bogged down.  The article discusses the many challenges facing starbucks as they strive to roll out new products and services while continuing their momentum.  As BOTW grows we find ourselves weighing our decisions a bit more heavily as our growing user base continues to look to us for clarity.  BOTW may not have all the bells and whistles that other directories have, but we have a clean, generally fast, and highly useful resource.   BOTW only improves with age.  The directory right now, is better than it was this morning.  We've added quality sites that we didn't have before; we've refactored a bloated category into a more meaningful tree of parent/children, and we've removed sites that are no longer reachable.  BOTW is doing well, as well it should.  We've put a lot of time and effort into it.  It's nice to stop and smell the roses from time to time and look back on all of the growth we've done.  It's not just our elbow grease that have gotten us this far; we owe much to our valued clientele.  Some of you heavy hitters may find a little something extra in your stockings this year.  I'm not sure what it is though.  We tossed around sending out the Borat style bathing suit with the message of "Looking forward to seeing you at the next conference!", and while it would've been hilarious, I think the consensus was that we not risk offending anyone, or risk anyone actually wearing it to the next conference!  Besides, while humorous, it's not necessarily the best seasons greeting.  Rest assured that whatever you do wake up to xmas morning, BOTW loves ya baby.  Awww yeah. 

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